For the first of May, the international workers day we have finally released the very long overdue and anticipated version of 0.9.9.0.

What is this version good for?

First – support forBaidu, the Chinese search giant which also have a translation engine, with the support for Cantonese which is rather unique for this engine. Another good thing is that with this engine, websites that are hosted in China can get access to a working translation engine.

Second – we have fixed the current key less support of both Google and Yandex, so actually they should work again now. So if a few pages in your site were not translated, the new version got you covered. A few languages were added in the process.

Third – lots of changes, additions and bug fixes all around. Yeah, we need to fix the documentation and FAQ for some.

Why are you still reading this? Just upgrade today, and work tomorrow!

There is more to the world than just Google Translate, there is also more to the world than just Bing Translate, apparently the ~150 million Russians are also doing great stuff, with Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia.

Yandex supports many languages and produces different results than the other engines, it also specializes in languages that are spoken inside Russia such as Bashkir, Kirghiz and Tatar. Which we were now able to add to the list of languages, making the total number of supported auto-translated languages to a whopping 95!

The addition of Yandex also triggered changed in the way we deploy auto translations, so it is now possible to set the preference of the translation engine you would like to use.

We also had many (and we mean MANY) bugs fixed in this release, the change log will give you a good taste of this:

Yandex translator support added

Added the option to choose preferred translators order via drag and drop

Fix critical bug in translate post and translate on publish

Fixes in language selection UI (long language names)

Fix translation dialog not loading on first click

No longer expose Google keys externally

Fix the clean automatic translations in the utils tab

Support Bashkir, Kyrghiz and Tatar thanks to Yandex – Now supporting 95 Languages!

The release train has finally picked up some speed, so we are proud to present this new version.This version fixes the Google proxy again, this is happening because there are things that we really cannot control. But again, it works.

The main changes include the additional[tpe]shortcode which was added on top of the older[].This code is used for self enclosing codes, where it is not necessary to close the tag, this is because a caveat in wordpress which causesthe code parsing to go berserk when mixing self-enclosed and closing shortcodes.

Also, there is no need to specify="y"any more, so now[tpe mylang]will simply work and output: ty

First thing first, we would like to deeply thank Christopher from LPK Studio – http://lpkstudio.com/for the new design of our website, this new website is finally up to today’s new web standards and should be visible on your mobile devices.

We really enjoyed working with Christopher on this, and he was extremely efficient, responsive and knew what we needed even before we asked 🙂

The new website is accompanied by a new release, nothing major here but a few bugs had gone the way of the dodo.

You may again use the + symbol inside translations

In some occasions, long paragraphs didn’t get the proper automatic translation from Google

Clearing old translations didn’t really work in 0.9.7.0

Enjoy the new version, and make sure you upgrade to this full version, its free.